Shawn Mcdonald Email and Phone Number

Shawn Mcdonald is a Strategic Go-To-Market Business Development Leader, Google Cloud Partner Ecosystem at Google. He possess expertise in hitachi, storage solutions, cloud computing, virtualization, storage and 45 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "I am writing a reference on behalf of Shawn McDonald providing direct feedback as a team partner and colleague to Shawn for many years. As we aspire to build agile and collaborative teams, success depends heavily on a leader’s personal drive, ethics, analytical abilities and most importantly, their ability to tactically and strategically execute with their teams. Shawn is one of these unique individuals, one of those people that finds success at everything they do. He has consistently built teams that meet and exceed their goals and set the bar for teamwork and coordination. As a sales and partnerships leader, Shawn is unquestionably the person I want placed squarely in the middle of a team to guide them and lead by example every step of the way. With regards to interacting with my global team, Shawn has spent the last three years as our global leader for critical technology and business partnerships. Besides interfacing with our global sales and technical teams, we’ve asked Shawn to also take on critical projects for the company to enhance our relevance with partners like Microsoft, VMware, SAP, Red Hat and many others. Being part of an extended team that grew one of our emerging products from $40M to $400M in less than 3 years is a testament to his work management, work ethic and planning and his commitment to quality and, just getting the job done. In my opinion, we have never compensated him enough for what he’s accomplished. As an example of his work quality and reputation, his efforts in leading our global VMware partnership speaks for itself. Shawn took responsibility to manage the worldwide relationship, led key supply chain initiatives, pricing planning and overall key sales strategies that resulted in triple digit sales growth. He worked directly with VMware and acted as lead on behalf of our product management, marketing and engineering teams and our global sales and operations leadership to foster and significantly grow the partnership. The best example of Shawn's success came at VMware's annual partner meeting in the Fall of 2017 that I attended. At the primary dinner, VMware's CEO had the option to sit at any of the 65 tables that were set up on the floor. He settled on the open seat next to Shawn and proceeded to have a professional and fun personal conversation for over an hour with Shawn and the rest of us at the table. It was not by chance. Pat Gelsinger approached the table and smiled and looked at Shawn and said, "Hey Shawn, you got room for one more?". This was simply a defining moment and of course a testament to Pat's easy going style and inclusive nature. The fact that Pat had 649 other seats to choose from but singled Shawn out was extremely compelling to me and spoke volumes of the trust and reliance Shawn had built with VMware, and of course, their CEO. Although not the case with every peer of Shawn's, in his case, his colleagues have come to simply expect full accountability, responsibility, transparenc" and "Shawn is a highly respected alliance management and business development leader in the organization and in broader enterprise software industry. He has well-rounded knowledge of business needs, data center technologies and competitive intelligence. He demonstrated rare combination of strategic planning, acute business sense, highly analytical mind, and tactical executional capabilities, skills that makes him a successful professional. Shawn plays a critical role in understanding business needs within the context of an OEM relationship and mapping out organizational priorities and goals and clearly communicate plans effectively and follow these through to completion. He’s been successfully managing multiple strategic relationships simultaneously and been instrumental in establishing and growing several practices within the organization. If a business plan requires massive resource marshaling, internal and external selling, executive buy-in, cross-functional implementation, get Shawn to lead and see project succeed. What makes him unique is he’s extremely affable, approachable and friendly attitude. He is a natural team player and leader. "